How to use custom announcement message?

[nik-rev]

In my repo I have CHANGELOG.md. I manually edit this file with changes between versions.
When I publish a new version like v1.2.7, I would like it to automatically look at the diff in CHANGELOG.md between the new version v1.2.7 and the previous version v1.2.6, then use that diff to create the same body in the announcement

How can I accomplish this? Cheers!

[mistydemeo]

We try to do this automatically. For example, if you take a look at this release body: https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/tag/v0.28.0

You can see that it's the same content that's in the version 0.28.0 section of our changelog: https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#version-0280-2025-01-08

Is this not working for you? If so, what does the formatting on your changelog look like? It's possible we're having trouble figuring out where the content is in yours.

[nik-rev]

We try to do this automatically. For example, if you take a look at this release body: https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/tag/v0.28.0

You can see that it's the same content that's in the version 0.28.0 section of our changelog: https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#version-0280-2025-01-08

Is this not working for you? If so, what does the formatting on your changelog look like? It's possible we're having trouble figuring out where the content is in yours.

Thanks for the quick reply, and nice to know that it's a feature! I don't get this because i don't think my changelog matches with the format

this is my changelog: https://github.com/nik-rev/patchy/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

is there e.g. a regex used to determine whether it gets included or not? or what format really do i need to use?

[mistydemeo]

We use the parse-changelog crate. So, for the time being, I suppose the answer is we support whatever parse-changelog supports.